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Question detail or wash first?
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:06 am
by cabin4clw
Quick question-do you put a wash on the vehicle before you detail or after?
Thanks.
Re: Question detail or wash first?
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:18 am
by chrisswim
Would the detail work become ‘dirty’ as the vehicle does.
If so, then detail first, then wash.
Re: Question detail or wash first?
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 10:15 am
by PolishGI
chrisswim wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:18 am
Would the detail work become ‘dirty’ as the vehicle does.
If so, then detail first, then wash.
x2
I like using a black wash to "tone down" colors as well. Play with it, paint the detail, add wash... come over with a drybrush to highlight. See what that leaves you. Re-do if necessary.
Re: Question detail or wash first?
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 7:33 pm
by pmskaar
Like Chris and Polish GI, I am in the detail first then wash group. If there is a detail that needs to be touched up, I will go back and do it after the wash. This seems to work for me.
Re: Question detail or wash first?
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2021 7:58 pm
by Beagle
pmskaar wrote: ↑Tue Apr 20, 2021 7:33 pm
Like Chris and Polish GI, I am in the detail first then wash group. If there is a detail that needs to be touched up, I will go back and do it after the wash. This seems to work for me.
Ditto
Re: Question detail or wash first?
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2021 4:11 am
by nash88
I uses to detail 1st then wash but lately I been the other way around so the color would pop.
Now I wash, drybrush and detail.
Re: Question detail or wash first?
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2021 9:35 am
by BurtWolf
I wash, dry brush, detail. Like Nash. For me I want brighter contrast to show off those smaller details.
Re: Question detail or wash first?
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:41 pm
by cabin4clw
Thanks for the help!